About your club
Patron
His Excellency, the Honourable Peter
Underwood, AC
President
Stuart Slade
Vice Presidents
Peter Joyce, Kathryn Westwood
Board
Josephine Archer
Ted Best AM
David Catchpole
Bruce Clark
Peter Dixon
Robin Holmes
Chris Langdon
Roger Locke
Tony Stacey AM
Chief Executive Officer
Harvey Lennon
Head Office
179-191 Murray Street, Hobart
Telephone (03) 6232 6300
Facsimile ( 03) 6234 8784
Branches
Hobart - 1/110 Collins Street
(03) 6222 9222
Launceston, Cnr York & George Sts
(03) 6335 5633
Devonport, 119 Rooke St Mall
(03) 6421 1933
Ulverstone, 38 Reibey Street
(03) 6490 8350
Burnie, 24 North Terrace
(03) 6434 2933
Rosny Park, Rosny Mall, 2 Bayfield St
(03) 6212 6755
Glenorchy, Cnr Main Rd & Terry St
(03) 6212 9588
Kingston, Shop 60 Channel Court
(03) 6242 3200
Editor Chris Viney
GPO Box 1292, Hobart 7001
Email: c.viney@ ract.com.au
Ph: (03) 6236 4310
Fax: (03) 6234 8784
Advertising
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The star rating protocol is based on a technical
visual assessment of the physical infrastructure
safety characteristics – single or dual carriageway,
side or centre barriers, adequate delineation,
sealed shoulders etc.
R ACT and its sister motoring organisations are
strongly advocating for the elimination of high
risk roads across Australia and are committed
to undertaking a star-rating assessment report
of the NLTN road network as the next AusR AP
project – watch this space!
For more information about AusRAP and its
system of mapping road safety based on risk
rating and safe infrastructure, read more at
www.ausrap.org
Thank you Chris
Recently the RACT
farewelled long-serving
Executive
Assistant
Christine Woodward,
who retired in February.
Chris has given skilled and
faithful service to three
CEOs during her 30-year career with us.
She has been the capable and unflappable
organiser of all our 50-year membership
functions, the AAA conferences held in
Tasmania, Board elections and the RACT’s
annual general meetings. She has also
held the important role of secretary to the
RACT Board.
We w ill miss Christine’s cheerful personality,
wise counsel and unequalled knowledge of
the club and its heritage. We wish her a long,
happy and well-earned retirement.
RACT Travelworld assists our
Air Australia passengers
R ACT Travelworld had about 50 passengers
booked to travel on Air Australia at
the time it went into administration on
17 Februar y, including two passengers in
Phuket at the time. With the financial collapse
of the airline excluded from travel insurance
policies and not covered by the Travel
Compensation Fund, most passengers faced
losing the amount paid for their Air Australia
tickets. R ACT Travelworld has undertaken
to minimise the impact on its clients by
re-booking them on other carriers up to the
value of their Air Australia tickets.
Your RACT is involved in a range of community
support and sponsorship programs – like
these three recent initiatives. We’re major
sponsors of the Tasmanian Sy mphony Orchestra’s
successful Symphony Under the Stars program
–
our General Manager Communications and
Marketing even took up the baton to conduct the
TSO’s performance of the William Tell Overture
at the L aunceston concert. On the Clarence
Boardwalk, we sponsored the Australia Day
breakfast and assisted the local Lions Club on the
day; and at North Hobart Oval, we were involved
with the North Melbourne Football Club’s clinic
for children.
Snapshots from our
community projects
C onfederation of Australian Motor Sport
(CAMS) President Andrew Papadopoulos,
addressed R ACT’s Joint Regional Advisor y
Committee forum in Hobart recently.
Mr Papadopoulos presented the CAMS
Ignition Program, a driver safety and
awareness program aimed at youth. For more
details, visit w ww.youtube.com and search
CAMS Ignition program.
Telling the CAMS story
VinceTaskunas
In our community
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